Chris Cooper And Dianne Wiest In Talks To Join HBO's 'The Corrections'

Midwestern misery found a potent voice in Jonathan Franzen's sprawling 2001 National Book Award winning epic "The Corrections." Now, HBO's adaptation of the book may have found its first cast members.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Dianne Wiest has taken a role in the upcoming series. According to Deadline, Chris Cooper is also currently in talks to play opposite Wiest. Cooper won an Oscar for "Adaptation," while Wiest has won two -- for Woody Allen's films "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Bullets Over Broadway." Wiest most recently appeared in HBO's "In Treatment," for which she scored an Emmy.

The two actors would play the elderly couple of Alfred and Enid Lambert, who are suffering from Parkinson's and dementia respectively as they suffer the breakdown of the toxic family ties that have kept them, and their three adult children, together. Scott Rudin optioned the rights to the book all the way back in 2001, when it first came out.

Franzen first revealed that the show was going forward at the New Yorker Festival, with Noah Baumbach to co-write the pilot with Franzen as well as direct it, and Rudin as executive producer.